Four Virginia Beach elementary school teachers will be wearing matching yellow sneakers on the first day of school next Tuesday.

They’re not just any tennis shoes, though. The teachers, Beth Kelly, Avery Horton, Roseanne Jacob and Christine Marcus, are colleagues at Woodstock Elementary School, 6016 Providence Rd. They got together over donuts last week at Kelly’s house and painted the canvas shoes to look like No. 2 pencils.

“We’re so excited about our new shoes,” said Kelly in a phone interview. “They’re so teacher-y,”

The idea came about over the summer. Kelly, who has taught third grade at Woodstock since 2006, saw a similar pair of shoes, made to look like pencils, on Target Teachers, an Instagram account. She tweeted a photo of the sneakers on Aug. 9 and said: “I will be making these before the end of the month!” She used a pencil emoji at the end of the tweet.

Before long, she heard from her three colleagues, who teach second grade. Internet research led to finding yellow canvas sneakers on Amazon, for about $12. They each ordered a pair. Kelly, who is a crafter, went to Michael’s and bought acrylic paints. She mixed them with a fabric medium, so the paint would stay flexible and not dry out.

“I do enough crafts to know all this,” she said.

The four educators met at Kelly’s house on Aug. 24. About three hours later, after using a hot blowdryer to set the paint, they were done, and ready to unveil them on the first day of school.

As for her students’ likely reaction?

“I think they’ll be enamored,” she said.

To cement the point, she refers to a teacher in the book, “The Magic School Bus.”